There is Over Here

Building More There's in Grapevine

According to a recent editorial in the Dallas Morning News, a stunning 58.5 percent of Americans surveyed after the Super Bowl this year had no impression of Dallas whatsoever. One reason is the Super Bowl was in Arlington. If there's a place Gertrude Stein's comment that "there's no there there" applies to, it's Arlington. We also do a poor job of spelling out just where our "There's" are. West End in Dallas, Bishop Arts District, Southlake Town Center, McKinney Avenue and parts of downtown Dallas. Main Street in Grapevine is another one. Grapevine gets a lot of tourists from elsewhere, but I'm amazed at the number of folks I find in DFW who don't know Grapevine has a downtown with a lively Main Street and historic, albeit some recreated, structures and even a stream train. When many locals think of Grapevine, they think of a: outlet mall or b: Gaylord Hotel. But guess what- there is a there here. That's the problem- there are there's here and there around dallas, but no cluster of there's, and no apparent resource to spell out exactly where the there's are.

P.S. Wouldn't it be great to have a "THERE" flag waving atop this new tower?